In February 2015, Wordpress.com had 61.6 million new posts (that’s roughly 25 posts per second) and 6.7 million new pages (source). This doesn’t count sites running Wordpress CMS which are hosted by other services. And by one estimate, there are just as many of those sites as those which are hosted by Wordpress.com (source).

The numbers for Wordpress.com don’t include any of the sites running Wordpress.org’s CMS while being hosted by other services. Wordpress powered sites not hosted by Wordpress.com

Back in 2008, Google announced that it had processed 1 trillion unique URLs—and that was 7 years ago (source).

According to websitemagazine.com, Google had indexed 200 terabytes of data as of 2014 (source).

In February 2015, Netcraft.com registered more than 883 million different websites (source).

And, in case you were wondering, reports that the internet is mostly porn have been greatly exaggerated (source).

Here is a nice little infographic summing up the per minute data generation as of 2012 for a variety of websites (source).

This volume of data generates a host of interesting questions for the philosopher. I plan to reflect on a few of these issues in future posts, so stay tuned!